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Erin C. Cassidy

Erin Cassidy is an associate in the firm's Commercial Disputes practice group. Erin’s practice includes a wide variety of complex civil litigation throughout the United States in both Federal and State Court, with experience in commercial disputes, consumer and building products-related litigation, and insurance recovery and counseling. 

Erin has experience representing and advising clients at all stages of litigation, including drafting multi count complaints, preparing and responding to pre litigation demand letters, and developing litigation strategy from initial investigation through resolution. Erin regularly drafts dispositive and non-dispositive motions, including motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, and motions to compel discovery, in complex commercial matters.

Erin is actively involved in all phases of expert and fact discovery, such as conducting comprehensive document review, preparing discovery requests and responses, and assisting in deposition preparation. She also supports senior lawyers in witness examinations and real time litigation strategy.

Prior to joining the firm, Erin served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Douglas M. Fasciale, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Through this role, Erin reviewed petitions for certiorari, drafted opinions and dissents in a variety of civil and criminal cases, and wrote bench memoranda for the Court. She also worked on a number of complex commercial cases containing novel issues of law including those related to the application of the attorney-client privilege and waiver thereof, judicial review of healthcare decisions made by New Jersey hospitals, and all manners of contractual breaches. 

Erin also served as a summer associate with the firm where she performed upper-level legal research and prepared a variety of court documents including motions to dismiss and motions to compel arbitration.

Erin graduated in the top two percent and with the fourth highest GPA in her law school class, earning her magna cum laude distinction and enrollment in the Order of the Coif. She was also a member of the Seton Hall Law Review and won an award for “Best Published Law Journal Comment.”  

  • No Place to Go: How Chronic Nuisance Ordinances Violate the First Amendment, 53 SETON HALL L. REV. 1311, 2023
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